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Sharon Lockhart

Untitled

2010

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Conceptual artist Sharon Lockhart’s untitled photograph depicts a pie tin heaped with clams resting on a wooden table in front of a wall of lumber planks. Lockhart dwells on texture and materiality, depicting the clam shells, the coarse wood grain of the worn table, and the planks lining the wall with exacting precision and detail. The raking light underscores the basic physicality of these simple objects while also amplifying their beauty and elevating their significance. The photograph alludes to numerous art historical precedents, particularly still-life painting and early modern realism, as well as Lockhart’s film Double Tide (2009), a poetic documentation of the work of a female clam digger in the mudflats of coastal Maine. The photograph presents the fruits of that labor, a relatively unseen and singular form of work. Both Lockhart’s image and the related film reflect the artist’s rigorous and humane practice of precisely framing the people, things, routines, and activities that give shape to our lives. [Permanent collection label, 2017]

  • Artist Sharon Lockhart (American, b. 1964)
  • Title Untitled
  • Date 2010
  • Medium Chromogenic color print
  • Edition description 4/6
  • Dimensions framed | 22 3/4 x 29 5/8 x 1 3/4 in.
  • Credit line Gift of Kim and Bruce Olson, 2016
  • Object number WU 2016.0016

11/23/2016 (received at KAM); 12/28/2016 (Deed of Gift signed)
Kim and Bruce Olson (St. Louis, MO)

Label neugerriemschneider gallery label affixed lower right on backing board, white paper label, gallery logo and address printed in color, artwork information printed in black, artist’s signature, edition number and date handwritten in black ink: [right justified] Sharon Lockhart [in bold] / untitled / 2010 / framed chromogenic print / 57,8 x 75,3 cm / Edition 4/6 / sl10/0031 / [inscribed in black ink] Signature 4/6 2010; [printed in color, each letter in a circle] N / E / U / G / E / RIEMSCHNEIDER / B / E / [intersects with R] / L / I / N / L I N I E N S T R A S S E 1 5 5 / 1 0 1 1 5 B E R L I N

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